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...smaller, less research-oriented schools, Rosovsky says, tougher teaching loads will likely lead professors to continue retirement near 65 or 70. But for the nation's top research universities, Rosovsky adds, the problem will remain...
...this is exacerbated by the delicate problem facing journalists in any war: how to communicate events fairly and accurately without revealing confidential military information. The problem has been made even tougher by the advent of live, satellite-fed TV communication. While U.S. viewers are watching air-raid alerts and Scud attacks as they happen, so are the Iraqis, via CNN. One ill-advised sentence or too revealing a picture could put troops in danger...
Despite the daunting problems, there is room for hope. Long-rampant steroid use among professional football players may be falling because of tougher testing, stiffer penalties and a changed player attitude toward drugs. Last November, President Bush signed legislation adding steroids to the list of tightly controlled substances, restricting their distribution and giving investigative authority to the Drug Enforcement Administration...
...even be waning. East German swimmer Raik Hannemann, who won the bronze medal in the 1990 Goodwill Games, said he took steroids from 1982 until 1988. "It was a normal thing all over the world," he says. With Germany's unification, East German swimmers became subject to a much tougher testing program, which ended broad steroid use, Hannemann claims...
...Khartoum, was even permitted to visit him in jail at least twice using a Greek passport and a fake name, although she too was under U.S. indictment. Nor does the story end with the decision last September by Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis to prosecute Rashid as part of his tougher line on terrorism. Two months ago, Rashid discovered the identity of the key witness against him. Since then, U.S. officials have learned, the supposedly retired Abu Ibrahim has dropped in on Awad's brother in Baghdad and confiscated his passport. The implied threat that harm may come to Awad...